There should be a distinction made between #web applications (applications that can run in any web browser which supports certain #standards) and applications that are allowed to run only on some selected web browsers (with other browsers being possibly banned).

The latter include #WhatsApp Web, #Slack, #Asana, #Google Spreadsheets… Marketing them as “web applications” is inadequate, similar as would be marketing #Electron-based applications as “web applications”.

The Cuban myth. No, it's not an example of socialism working. No, it's not because of any embargo. Since Obama, you can even import Cuban cugars to the US now.

> The Castro regime dilapidated subsidies from the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1990 equivalent to five Marshall plans, and yet it failed to improve its economic growth or take advantage of these huge transfers to improve productivity. Between 1960 and 1990, Cuba received more than $65 billion from the Soviet Union, not to mention the money it received from other socialist countries.

> Cuba even benefited from a subsidy from the Venezuelan regime—which itself receives billions from China—that covered 70 percent of the country’s consumption. It also receives hundreds of millions from international organizations.

> Despite this, the Nationmaster ranking, which compares the average salary for countries around the world, ranks Cuba last (176th place) in the world, with an average salary of $25.05 per month in 2014.

#Privacy extension by #DuckDuckGo lowers privacy grade of websites which privacy practices have not been reviewed. Ironically, service they use for this purpose is named “Terms of Service Didn’t Read” and it itself does have lowered rating, apparently because of not being in its own database.

Even if they read some ToS, how do they know that they are being enforced?

A Bulgarian MEP is in charge of an initiative called "I won't get hacked" promoted with the hashtags #cyberneat (and #киберчист in Bulgarian) so far starts as a very promising cinge-fest kind of really like what we expected TBH.First thing they do is launch http://cyberneat.e-gov.bg/ (yes over HTTP, yes **ONLY** HTTP), which gives you soem password tips like mixing cases, using special characters, using at least 10 characters etc. and then prompts you to check how strong your password is.

#Electrum is a popular #Bitcoin wallet, one of the recommended by bitcoin.org. An elementary and serious #security issue had been at first not treated seriously on IRC, then ignored for over a month on GitHub (currently over 200 watchers). Apparently Linus’s law is not always working.

“Pale Moon already set the granularity for the performance timers sufficiently course in Oct 2016 when it became clear that this could be used to perform hardware-timing based attacks and fingerprinting.

Pale Moon also, by design, doesn't allow buffer memory to be shared between threads in #JavaScript, so the »SharedArrayBuffer« attack is not possible.”

22:15 <@MoonchildPM|Away> KrzysiekJ: You may have to write an addendum to the article. They finally got back to me (potentially after having my post show up for them) and there is an extremely bad and fragile workaround possible to make SHA256 signing with their crypto hardware possible that I found out (no thanks to their terrible support and not something discoverable even for tech-minded devs).

Code signing of #Pale_Moon binaries on #Windows will come to an end because signing certificates are practically unavailable to individual developers. The only viable option (Certum, #Poland) uses #SHA1. Sadly, ignoring the fact that SHA1 has been broken seems to be common in Poland. The market of #SSL certificates seems to be highly regulated, yet still the regulation has not prevented this situation occuring.

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